HOLY CRAP! THAT"S THE KIND OF NECK I WANT! I am so tempted to pull the trigger on a few of the LB100's listed on line, but I'd like to hold out for one with a neck like yours. Very nice bass you have there Sir.
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HOLY CRAP! THAT"S THE KIND OF NECK I WANT! I am so tempted to pull the trigger on a few of the LB100's listed on line, but I'd like to hold out for one with a neck like yours. Very nice bass you have there Sir.
Here's the photo of it taken about 9 months ago, just before it went back to the factory to let G&L have another go at reading the bit on spec sheet that said "quartersawn"
Ugh... on their end, I'm sure they thought it was merely a clerical error.
Given what subsequently happened to this bass, that was nothing
Can't decide what I think of this....
....Pharaoh Gold and Tort....
....glorious or ghastly? I'm certainly transfixed by it
....Pharaoh Gold and Tort....
....glorious or ghastly? I'm certainly transfixed by it
I like the classic combinations of tort plus vintage white / Lake Placid Blue / black etc .... and I also like bright colours like red, copper, tangerine, pink etc .... which mostly look awful with tort .... and then I had this idea and searched for it .... and now I ....
I think Pharaoh Gold in reality is a bit lighter, less orangey than its looking in that pair of photos? In which case the combo would look better still ....
I still can't believe this bass is back in my possession. I shipped it to the UK back in March, it got lost in the UK's postal system, eventually auctioned off, then posted on eBay by the buyer, and ultimately recovered after @Ricky Rioli saw his special order bass listed on eBay.
I want to simultaneously kill and kiss Parcel Force. They screwed up big time with the initial shipment and the aftermath, but they also went out of their way to recover and return the bass to me. They refunded the eBay buyer, they refunded @Ricky Rioli a bunch of his expenses, and they shipped it back to me at no cost. USPS also refunded my original shipping, so all's well that ends well I guess.
@Ricky Rioli was a rock star throughout this nightmare. Even after he decided that he wanted to pass on buying the bass, he doggedly pursued the recovery and return of the bass. Like for MONTHS. I think he wanted me to get it back more than I wanted to get it back. Many thanks, Ric!
With the disjointed chain of custody, now I have to figure out how best to actually sell this thang. It's technically still new, but... check out my sponsored forum for more details in the coming days. I don't want to violate any commercial use policies by saying more here.
I love the gold color….but I'd probably go with a black pick plate,err scratch guard, plastic thingy.Can't decide what I think of this....
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....Pharaoh Gold and Tort....
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....glorious or ghastly? I'm certainly transfixed by it
I had a lb100 in Spanish Copper Metallic which is a beautiful color. It came with a tort pg,which i meant to replace with a black or cream one, but instead ended up trading it for a L1000. (No pickguard).
Any one else see the new CLF colors for L1K and 2500 (non 750?) "Matcha". I forget what the 2500 one is called but I like that combo with the maple board better than the matcha with rw
The attempted sale was spotted on a local Facebook Marketplace advert by someone on the UK-based BassChat forum who lives in another part of the country and who thought, "a pink SB-1, in the UK, that's got to be Ricky's...."
Since the bass had disappeared before it even made it onto the UK postal system's tracking, it had never been through customs to have the huge wodge of duty due on it paid, so what the legal status of the bass might be was unclear - stolen? smuggled? what?
Which that made me uncomfortable. It was only a little later that we discovered that Parcelforce had had it in their lost property department for a while (despite there being a piece of paper giving both my and Greg's addresses still in the case) and then sold legally at auction (despite that piece of paper)Another reason I didn't want to try to recover it for myself was that I was unsure what state it would be in - according to the tracking it had gone missing in Heathrow Airport, and stolen goods are not traditionally looked after very well. Much better for it to get back to Greg, so that he could make a well-informed estimation of its condition. I'm both pleased and astonished to hear that the bass is still in mint condition!
Helping me cause the enormous amount of bother necessary to cagole the bass back home were the BassChat member Jonesy, and a friend of mine who lives near the Facebook Marketplace seller. The guy trying to sell it (at a huge profit) wasn't legally required to return it to the auction house, and I think we would have to admit that we gave him (and the auction house and various Parcelforce employees) a fairly intense bit of pestering to help the right thing get done.
After all the problems I had with the bass, I got the impression that fate really didn't want me to have it, and I noticed that our luck only turned the corner once I had given up on it. This bass is now laden with good karma, and whoever buys it will need to do right by it - and that means playing the blessed thing in public! MFD split + maple neck + the Rotosound 66s that are currently on it mean this bass will be have a audible presence to match its visual presence: its a cheeky thing and needs to be causing musical mischief in front of audiences (in my very well-earned opinion
)ps .... final reminder ... it's got a quartersawn 1.5" neck ... and weighs just 7.0 lbs ...
Back to the pressing matter of Pharaoh Gold plus Tort - it looks better with a frost finish to mute it slightly:
That helps!
Also, I always think tort looks better on guitars….probably because there's less of it.
(I'll let myself out….
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